today, it is a knitting blog

[mylittleredgirl]

I finished the never-ending sweater of neverendingness!! I still can't believe it took this long -- it's not that complicated -- but I suppose the extended mono of doom is a valid excuse.



The gleee and relief lasted about 8 seconds, and then I went "oh, crap. *Now* what am I going to do?"

I think socks next. Or baby stuff, for all of my friends (and by "all" I mean "two") with new babies or babies-who-will-be-new-in-less-than-a-week. Maybe tomorrow I will go and buy new project goodies.

And, heh, it's actually cold enough in my house right now to warrant wearing a wool sweater. I'd yell "What the heck is up with the freaking weather!?" but I've lived in the Berkshires for a long time and am therefore not that concerned.

-- Little Red, who insists that knitting in the summer isn't weird.

Comments

[keenween.livejournal.com]

yay!
I haven't done much with that blanket, and it's too hot here to be knitting now...
It's not gonna get any coller really, so I guess I should just suck it up and get to work, huh?

[lisayaeger.livejournal.com]

Red's a Red!

So purdy!!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! Ah, yes, my screen name refers to my hair and not to any communist ties or sports team affiliation :)

[lisayaeger.livejournal.com]

LOL! I always thought it had to do with a wagon!

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Two things frighten me slightly about this entry.

1. You sorta look like I thought you might. Not that I've thought about it a lot, but you look like the vague picture in my head. Huh. I'm weird.

2. I learned to knit this weekend. As you'd probably guess I can barely knit a row, and can only one day dream of aspiring to your knittyness. Is that a word.

I'm feeling sort of stalker-esque today. Huh. Yay me!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

You know, that's one I haven't heard before. But I totally love those. My best friend when I was wee had one, and we broke it out again when we were teenagers and raced it against a shopping cart down the street. (For the record, no serious injuries were incurred, but I think some band-aids were required).

[vagenna.livejournal.com]

the sweater is BEAUTIFUL.

You know, sachi, I realized that I completely stopped knitting when you disapeared with the evil death of doom. :(

[lisayaeger.livejournal.com]

LOL! The memories of youth ;-)

[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you have MSN, do you? *looks hopeful*

... I'm not a stalker. No. Not at all. ;)

Great job!

[dingc.livejournal.com]

If I tried to do that it would look like a fish net! Looks great!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I guess so... you could knit at a table or something so the blanket isn't resting in your lap, maybe?

I got your phone message -- my cell battery died as soon as it started ringing, sorry -- and re: the electric bill, the one I have goes through May 19.

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

She's perfectly harmless. Really.

*nods*

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! Knitting defeated me, but I crochet a mean afghan... or twenty.

[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

See? Perfectly harmless.

...you were being perfectly sincere then, weren't you, Julie?

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

You sorta look like I thought you might.

Don't worry about it -- all redheads look more or less the same ;) Well, that's less true as adults, but really, all redheaded children before about the age of 6 look *identical*

I learned to knit this weekend.

eeeeeee! *squeals* It's sad how excited I get finding out other people knit, or are learning to knit, or want to learn to knit. But it's so much fun. A bunch of my friends at school and I had a knitting circle (a "socialist socialite knitting circle". It shortened to "soc-soc" and we thought that was cool). And you will so reach my knittyness soon!! It doesn't take long -- one scarf to learn how to knit and purl reliably, one simple sweater pattern to learn to read patterns and make increases and decreases, and then you're there and can do anything :)

I'm feeling sort of stalker-esque today.

Come stalk me on yahell :) *waves angst snippets as bait*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

nooooooo!! you must finish the scarf!

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Certainly. Theoretically.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!! I don't crochet well, beyond the very basic crocheting skills you need as a knitter, but crocheted afghans are *so pretty.* I knitted an afghan last fall that I adore, but the range of stuff you can do with afghans is less impressive with knitting, I think.

I like knitting better because I can do a lot of it without looking, so I can read or watch TV while I do it... but it seemed like crocheting required more attention because you had to be sure to get the hook in the right place in the stitch before... but maybe that's because I didn't stick with it long enough!

-- Little Red, who likes anything that lets her call TV-watching "productive"

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't have MSN!! I do yahoo messenger -- mylittleredgirl ... *looks hopefully at you and bats eyes*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

aww... *disappointed*... harmless is so dull ;)

Re: Great job!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And fishnets were the origins of knitting, I'm told...

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I like knitting better because I can do a lot of it without looking, so I can read or watch TV

Hee. I'm that way about crochet. Granted, I now use the largest size hook, otherwise my hands cramp up horribly, so that makes it a little easier.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe I should try crocheting again and stick it out till I get better at it!

And I love your icon. It's sad how well I remember my nursery rhymes as a grown woman who is yet to have children, but that one is one of my favourites.

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I decided to teach myself not long before my grandmother died (she had started the process years ago, but I only ever managed the chain stitch). It took me about a month of many bad words and skeins of yarn launched across the room, and then one day it just clicked. Now I lust after pretty soft yarn and spend the winters crocheting enough blankets for a small army.

And thank you! It's one of my favorite rhymes as well.

Re: Great job!

[dingc.livejournal.com]

First, let me just say that you're really hot in that pic! Second, I'm still a pervert! Third, this on MSEncarta:

The oldest form of knitting is crossed knitting, in which the stitches, instead of aligning vertically, are rotated a half turn. This method, also called single-needle knitting and pseudo knitting, was highly developed in the fringes of woven cloths produced in pre-Columbian Peru by the Nazca culture, which flourished from 200bc to ad600. In the Nazca work, intricate human and animal figures were created by frequent color changes. Other early examples of knitting include pieces from about ad200, found at the Dura-Europas site near the Euphrates River; sandal socks, apparently from Saudi Arabia from the mid-4th century; and some socks and other items made with the crossed-knitting technique and found in Egyptian burials, the earliest possibly dating from the 4th or 5th century bc. Knitting apparently was introduced into Europe by the Arabs, probably in the 5th century. During the Middle Ages guilds controlled the manufacture of knitted goods such as woolen caps, and the craft flourished in England and Scotland in the 14th and 15th centuries. By 1589 a machine to knit stockings had been perfected in Nottingham by the English clergyman William Lee, whose knitting frame was so excellent that few improvements were needed for 250 years. Later English developments—a ribbing device (1758), a warp-knitting machine (1775), and a circular knitting machine (19th century)—made possible the shaping of hosiery and other garments, and by the 19th century machine-knitted underclothes were common. Commercial knitting centers developed in English cities such as Nottingham and Leicester, and in the U.S. in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and other cities.

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